Sporting CP 0-2 Benfica: result and report

Sporting CP 0-2 Benfica

Liga Portugal · Friday 17 January 2020, 21:15 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sporting CP were beaten by Benfica 0-2 in Liga Portugal on Friday 17 January 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Rafa Silva opened the scoring in the 80th minute. Sporting CP did not score. Benfica scored through Rafa Silva (80') and Rafa Silva (90+9').

Discipline: Sporting CP received 4 yellow cards; Benfica received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting CP were 4th on 29 points from 16 and Benfica 1st on 45 points from 16. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 4th with 60 points, and Benfica 2nd with 77.

Sporting CP lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Benfica in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Rafa Silva of Benfica (8.7), ahead of Odysseas Vlachodimos (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sporting CP win, 6 draws and 3 for Benfica.

Going into the match Sporting CP's last five read W-L-W-W-L and Benfica's W-W-W-W-W.